| 摘要 |
A personnel transfer apparatus is provided herein. It includes a rigid but open personnel transfer chamber provided with buoyency means for providing buoyant support for persons in water and is suitable for the transfer of persons from one vessel to another vessel floating on water, e.g., for personnel transfer or for personnel evacuation and rescue. The device includes a rigid, substantially flat deck, a buoyant, shock-absorbing base supporting the deck, A plurality of peripheral posts upstanding from the deck, the posts being provided with shock-absorbing padding, one of the posts being a central hollow post preferably being filled with a light weight foam for flotation purposes and not to be used for lifting purposes. A cage is provided for surrounding personnel on the deck. The deck and the shock-absorbing base have sufficient buoyancy to support the whole chamber and deck in the water with the deck disposed slightly below the water level. A roof is supported by the posts and supporting cable means are associated with the roof at the region of each of the peripheral posts for suspending the device with several persons therein by a cable means which is connected to a vessel from which personnel are to be transferred. The base of the personnel transfer chamber is connected to a tag line, which, in turn, is connected to a tugger line to be wound on a winch mounted on the deck of the other vessel.
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